, 1887-10-16
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Maximum temperature yesterday So,
minimum, 800.
Several hunting parties left the city for
various alleged duck resorts at an early
hour this morning.
The school boy who does not possess a
large quantity of marbles at present is an
outcast among his playmates.
The Cheyenne Il Burlington pays pre-
miums to graders who complete their
contracts prior to the specified time.
Y. NJ. G. A. officials talk of placing
another bowling alley in the gymnasium.
The one recently constructed is in con-
slant use.
A final receipt to John Petz was re-
corded in the county clerks Office yester-
day. 1t was for 16O acres of land in
Laramie county.
J. d. Hardin, the gifted colored orator,
will probably deliver a lecture upon the
labor question in Y. NJ. c. A. hall about
tho last of the present month.
j. w. Hammond says that Parker,
who pleaded guilty to the robbery of Pay
master Bash, is IN unusually expert
mauipulator of the six-shooter.
There was a small fire in w. NJ. MASKS
store last evening. A gauze curtain was
ignited from a lighted lamp, but was ex-
tinguished before the flames spread.
Russell Thorp has distributed a number
of highly polished specimens of superior
marble from his Rawhide quarry, to
Cheyenne friends. They are used as
paper weights.
Lenore K Murray, an Iowa celebrity,
will give a dramatic reading entertain
ment at Y. M. G. a. hall Tuesday even,
ing. The lady enjoys the reputation OF
being a first-class elocutionist.
The special car of Superintendent
Cool. of the St. Joseph l. Grand Island
railway was attached to the Denver train
last evening. The gentleman and his
family and party are bound for the West.
The man so seriously injured at the
capitol building Friday is still alive,
though unconscious, and the doctors state
that there is a bare possibility of his re.
covering from the effects of his terrible
fall.
Five heavily loaded passenger trains
arrived at and departed from this point
yesterday. Those from the West were
several hours late, consequent upon de-
lays by the Central Pacific in reaching
Ogden.
Kitty DeLorme is the only rival OF
Mime Madden in the l%atter's creation
of Chip" in Fogg'S FeJry, which com
edy will be presented at the opera house
tomorrow night. Tickets are now on
sale at Rhodes & Troxell's.
The railway employees at the depot ex-
%perienced great difficulty in assigning
passengers to their proper quarters. The
emigrant who doesn't insist hat he is
about to board the wrong train is an ex.
t%raordinary exception.
Maggie Mitchell, the famous soubrette,
appears at the opera house next Friday
and Saturday nights with a new company
in Maggie, the Midget and Lorle.
Neither of these plays has ever been
produced in Cheyenne.
Rev. B. Staunton, the eloquent Doug,
las divine, formerly a popular Brooklyn
clergyman, will deliver a sermon at the
opera house tonight. His subject will
be The Star" Admission will, of course
be free.
The son of old Jim Baker, the once
famous scout, who now lives quietly on
Snake river, Carbon county, is in trouble
in Colorado again, where he recently
served a term for horse stealing. This
time a man threatened to kill Baker fol-
swindling him in a horse trade and chen
aleniating the affections of his wife.